Revised curricular requirements as of Fall Quarter of 2008.

The M.S.E.E./Telecommunications Engineering degree is awarded to students who demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the field.  All students will have the option of completing either a project in telecommunications or a six month period of internship through Drexel’s Graduate Co-op program.  The average time required to complete the master’s degree is two years of full-time or three years of part-time study.

Plan of Study

A plan of study, with appropriate Telecommunications-related technical content as outlined below, must be approved by the graduate advisor, in consultation with the student’s research advisor (if applicable).  Before the end of the first quarter in the ECE department, for a full-time student, or by the end of the first year for a part-time student, the student must file a plan of study with the graduate advisor. The form can be found by going to http://www.ece.drexel.edu/grad/plan_of_study_form.pdf

Degree Requirements

The M.S.E.E./Telecommunications Engineering curriculum encompasses 45 or 48 (with the Graduate Co-op option) credits.

A total of at least 30 credits of graduate courses are required from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department from the table below.  With the remaining graduate credits, subject to the approval of the graduate advisor, students can take graduate course from electrical and computer engineering, mathematics, physics or other engineering disciplines.  Students may also elect to take three credits in Telecommunications Policy and/or three credits in Telecommunications Management.

Students also may chose to complete a three credit project, which can either be theoretical or experimental, or to participate in six credits (6 months) of Graduate Co-op.

Course	Course Name	Credits	Term	Prerequisite
ECET 501	Fundamentals of Communication Engineering	3	Spring	ECES 522
ECET 511	Physical Foundations of Telecommnications	3	Fall
ECET 512	Wireless Systems	3	Winter
ECEC 631	Principles of Computer Networking	3	Fall
ECEC 632	Performance Analysis of Computer Networks	3	Winter	ECEC 631
ECEC 633	Advanced Topics in Computer Networking	3	Spring	ECEC 632
ECES 511	Fundamentals of Systems I	3	Fall
ECES 512	Fundamentals of Systems II	3	Winter	ECES 511
ECES 513	Fundamentals of Systems III	3	Spring	ECES 512
ECES 521	Probability and Random Variables	3	Fall
ECES 522	Random Processes and Spectral Analysis	3	Winter	ECES 521
ECES 523	Detection and Estimation Theory	3	Spring	ECES 522
ECES 631	Fundamentals of Deterministic DSP	3	Fall
ECES 632	Fundamentals of Statistical DSP	3	Winter	ECES 631
ECES 682	Fundamentals of Image Processing	3	Spring	ECES 631

Non-Engineering

It is strongly recommended that Telecom students take COM 650.  This course deals with the legal aspects of Telecommunications.

COM 650: Telecommunications Policy in the Information Age 

Electives

The following list contains suggested electives from the graduate offerings in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.  These courses will allow the students to choose a specific technical focus area (i.e., Microwave Systems, Signal Processing, Photonics Systems, Networking, etc.) depending on their career goals.

Digital signal processing
Microwave networks
Fiber optics
Photonic devices
VLSI design
Computer networking
Information theory
Multimedia

ECES 558: Psychoacoustics and Sound Modeling
ECES 559: Processing of the Human Voice
ECES 660: Machine Listening and Music Information Retrieval

Students may also choose other elective courses from the ECE graduate offerings and graduate offerings from the departments of Mathematics and Physics and the College of Engineering.

Please note that ECEC 500 and ECEC 600 will not count towards the required courses for the degree in M.S.E.E./Telecommunications Engineering.

Students who started the program prior to the Fall Quarter of the 2008 have the option of following the old curriculum, which can be found here.